Spice up your Teaching with Apps and Tools from A – Z!

All my resources for the Virtual Round Table 2013 E-conference!

6th Virtual Round Table

You can view my slightly updated presentation slides on Slideshare below:

You can view the presentation as a clickable e-booklet, published via Youblisher:

Please add a link to your favourite app or tool to my Padlet page

With many thanks!

6th Virtual Round Table Presentation Notes by Janet Bianchini, ABRUZZO, Italy

Tool / App	Website address	Notes
1 ABCYA! for KIDS	http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm	Easy word cloud generator
2 BUILD YOUR WILD SELF	http://www.buildyourwildself.com/	Create your animal avatar for blogs
3 CARTOON CAMERA APP	Download from Google Play Store	App for turning photos instantly into a cartoon
4 DVOLVER	http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html	Movie maker
5 EDMODO	http://www.edmodo.com/home	Educational platform
6 FLIPBOARD	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flipboard.app	Flipboard brings together world news and social news in a beautiful magazine designed for your Android phone and tablet.
7 GLOGSTER	http://www.glogster.com/	Interactive poster tool
8 HOW STUFF WORKS	http://www.howstuffworks.com/	Reference site for all subjects including technology
9 IMAGE CHEF	http://www.imagechef.com/	Easy to use image editing site/app
10 JIGSAW PLANET	http://www.jigsawplanet.com/	Jigsaw puzzle maker, embeddable on blog
11 KARAOKE PARTY	http://www.karaokeparty.com/	Fun site for karaoke singing
12 LISTEN A MINUTE	http://www.listenaminute.com/	Short topical listening activities
13 MUZY*	http://muzy.com/	Visual blogging platform (sadly no longer active, only archives, 2016)
14 NEWSPAPER SNIPPET GENERATOR	http://www.fodey.com	Create short pieces of text to look like a news article
15 ONE STOP ENGLISH	http://www.onestopenglish.com/community/social-tools/app/	Educational site full of interesting resources
16 PHOTO GRID	Download from Google Play Store	App for smartphone, for creating quick collages
17 QUIZLET	http://quizlet.com	Flashcard-making site
18 READ, WRITE, THINK	http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/	Easy comic making site
19 STORYBIRD	http://storybird.com/	Create beautifully illustrated story books
20 TAGXEDO	http://www.tagxedo.com/	Beautiful word clouds with shapes
21 ULTIMATE PUZZLEMAKER*	http://www.wordsearchmaker.net/	Word search generator (sadly no longer available, 2016)
22 VOICETHREAD	https://voicethread.com/	Collaborative digital storytelling sharing site
23 WRITECOMICS	http://writecomics.com/	Very easy comic site
24 XTRANORMAL*	http://www.xtranormal.com/	Animation site (no longer available, 2016)
25 YOUBLISHER	http://www.youblisher.com/	Publish all your documents online
26 ZIMMER TWINS	http://www.zimmertwins.com/	Animation movie site for Young Learners

DVOLVER for Virtual Round Table

Glogster for Virtual Round Table

Jigsaw for Virtual Round Table

Newspaper Snippet for Virtual Round Table

Storybird Example: Living the Dream

Tagxedo for Virtual Round Table

View all the amazing shapes you can use for your projects in the Tagxedo Gallery!

Ongoing list of links to URLs of sites and blog posts connected to web 2.0 tools & apps:

Name of Site / Blog	URL of Site / Blog post
Janet's Abruzzo Edublog	http://civitaquana.blogspot.com
Janet's A - Z of Useful Links	http://janetabruzzo.wikispaces.com/A+-+Z+of+Useful+Links
Fluffy's Blog	http://fluffythekitten.co.uk
Comics and Cartoons Scoop.it	http://www.scoop.it/t/comics-and-cartoons
Jane Hart's Top 100 Tools	http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/
Cybraryman's Technology Links	http://www.cybraryman.com/technologylinks.html
Edudemic Best Education Technology	http://edudemic.com/best-education-technology/
Ozge's Technology Blog	http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/
Life Feast Blog	http://lifefeast.blogspot.com.br/2013/04/app-swap-iatefl-2013.html
Educational Technology in ELT Blog	http://educationaltechnologyinelt.blogspot.it/2013/01/storytelling-websites-and-apps.html
Box of Tricks	http://www.boxoftricks.net/
Thoughts and Ramblings Blog	http://sueannan.blogspot.it/2013/05/eltchat-summary-ist-may-2013-criteria.html
Sandy Millin's Blog	http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/web-tool-recommendations-eltchat-summary/
Edudemic	http://edudemic.com/2013/05/blooms-taxonomy-apps/